Men's Golf News & Highlights

April 02, 2013

Conditions Slow Eagles at Alvernia Invite

MOHNTON, Pa.- Down a couple top golfers, Eastern University
Golf competed in tough conditions at the Alvernia University
Invitational. In the best of weather, the 6,800 yard track at LedgeRock
Country Club would provide a stiff test for any golfer. Today, was not
the best of weather. With gusting winds affecting nearly every stroke,
Eastern posted a season-worst 383.

Logan Maurer finished tied for
16th in the nine-team invitational with a solid 84. Maurer avoided the
big number and carded eight pars and a pair of double-bogeys on the
up-and-down course. Maurer rebounded from a tough double on the short
part four 16th with pars on the two challenging closing holes. The
uphill 418-yard 17th, which plays as the No. 2 handicap hole on the
course, had its way with most of the field. The hole played straight
into a gusting wind and yielded only one birdie and nine pars on the
afternoon.

Maurer also parred the 627 yard 18th. The Eagles were
either feast or famine on the down-hill finishing hole. Maurer, Ryan
Torresin, and Kevin Andersen each parred the hole. Billy Jackson and
Glen Westerlund did not fair so well. Jackson doubled the hole, and
Westerlund hit multiple balls into the green-side hazzard and posted an
11.

Torresin started his day with a pair of doubles before
bouncing back with two brilliant shots on the 532 yard eighth. Torresin
found the fairway with his drive and put a long iron within 18 feet of
the cup. He missed the Eagle put and had a tap in for birdie. Torresin
was never able to get a run of pars going and finished back in the field
with an 88.

Andersen finished with a 101, the senior ran into
trouble on the three closing holes of the front side. Westerlund and
Jackson finished with a 110 and a 111.

Messiah College won the
Invitational with a 328. Keystone College finished two strokes back with
a 330 and the host Crusaders finished with a 332.